One thing the most visited websites have in common is that they are dynamic websites. Their development typically involves server-side coding, client-side coding and database technology. The programming languages applied to deliver such dynamic web content vary vastly between sites.

+ Programming languages used in most popular websites Websites Popularity(unique visitors per month) Front-end(Client-side) Back-end(Server-side) Database Googlesearchenginewatch.com - Google Hits the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors Mark 2,800,000,000 JavaScript, TypeScript C, C++, Go,Rob Pike (2012). Go at Google. Presentation at the ACM conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH). Java, Python, Node Bigtable, MariaDB Facebook 1,100,000,000 JavaScript, TypeScript, Flow Hack/HHVM, PHP, Python, C++, Java, Erlang, D, Haskell MariaDB, MySQL, HBase, Cassandra YouTube 1,100,000,000 JavaScript, TypeScript Python, C, C++, Java, Go Vitess, BigTable, MariaDB Yahoo 750,000,000JavaScriptPHPPostgreSQL, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB,Etsy516,000,000(Total, not unique)JavaScriptPHPMySQL, Redis Amazon 2,400,000,000 JavaScript Java, C++, PerlDynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, Redshift Wikipedia 475,000,000 JavaScript PHP MariaDBFandom315,000,000JavaScriptPHPMySQL X 290,000,000 JavaScript C++, Java, Scala, Ruby (Ruby on Rails)MySQL Bing 285,000,000 JavaScript C++, C#Microsoft SQL Server, Cosmos DB eBay 285,000,000 JavaScript Java, JavaScript, Scala Oracle Database MSN 280,000,000 JavaScript C# (ASP.NET)Microsoft SQL Server LinkedIn 260,000,000 JavaScript Java, JavaScript, Scala Venice Pinterest 250,000,000 JavaScript Python (Django), Erlang, Elixir MySQL, Redis WordPress.com 240,000,000JavaScriptPHPMariaDBNetflix223,090,000 (Subscribers, not visitors)JavaScriptPython, JavaNMDB, PostgreSQL

+ Back-end (Server-side) table in most popular websites Websites C# C C++ D Elixir Erlang Go Hack Haskell Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby Scala Google Facebook YouTube Yahoo Etsy Amazon Wikipedia Fandom X Bing eBay MSN LinkedIn Pinterest WordPress.com Netflix

See also

Comparison of programming languages List of programming languages TIOBE index "Hello, World!" program CodeHS

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